Hi Furio,
You can use PDF Indexer extension of us:
joomdonation.com/joomla-extensions/joomla-pdf-indexer.html
it works independently and doesn't depend on Edocman extension.
PDF Indexer extensions uses the library called: pdftotext, this library should have permission 777 to make it to work stably, but you just need to change permission of that file, so there aren't any security problems here.
Thanks
Dam